Australian Crop Breeders is the peak body representing Australian public and private field crop breeding
Our Purpose
Provide leadership for the Australian crop breeding industry through collaboration and advocacy to ensure breeding efforts are maximised for the benefit of members and the broader agricultural community
ACB Board
Haydn Kuchel – AGT
Tress Walmsley – InterGrain
TBC – LRPB
Dale Skepper – RAGT
Jane Banovac - Agriculture Victoria
Amanda Box – Secobra RecherchesNick Willey – Trigall Australia
Our Value Statement
Valuing integrity, promoting collaboration and advocating effectively to advance crop breeding
We provide leadership to:
Research and development
To provide research leadership and guidance to the industry while serving as a platform for industry feedback
Variety trials & evaluation
To provide operational input and recommendations on policies and processes regarding industry variety trials and evaluations
End-point royalty collection
Monitor and improve royalty collection systems and compliance
Research Committee members:
- INTERGRAIN: Dini Ganesalingam (chair)
- AGT: Tristan Coram
- LONGREACH PLANT BREEDERS: Bertus Jacobs
- NSW DPIRD: Kristy Hobson / Ahsan Asif
- RICE BREEDING AUSTRALIA: Chris Proud
- SECOBRA RECHERCHES: Marie Appelbee
- RAGT: Maqbool Ahmad
- TRIGALL AUSTRALIA: Nick Willey
- AG VIC: Sukhjiwan Kaur
Regulatory & Legal
To provide leadership, advice, and advocacy on regulatory, legislative, and IP matters, including plant breeders' rights and royalty collection
Regulatory & Legal Committee members:
- AGT: Andrew Cecil (chair)
- INTERGRAIN: Tress Walmsley
- RICE BREEDING AUSTRALIA: Georgie Pengilley
- SECOBRA RECHERCHES: Amanda Box
- LONGREACH PLANT BREEDERS: TBC
- TRIGALL AUSTRALIA: Nick Willey
- AG VIC: Jane Banovac
- RAGT: Dale Skepper
VT&E Committee members
- AGT: James Edwards (chair)
- SECOBRA RECHERCHES: Amanda Box
- AGT: Douglas Lush
- INTERGRAIN: Nicole Kerr
- LONGREACH PLANT BREEDERS: Adrian McNair
- NSW DPIRD: Kristy Hobson
- NUSEED: Taylor Wollermann
- RICE BREEDING AUSTRALIA: Chris Proud
- RAGT: Maqbool Ahmad / Richard Prusa
- TRIGALL AUSTRALIA: Nick Willey
- AG VIC: Babu Pandey
EPR Committee members
- LONGREACH PLANT BREEDERS: Sam Willsmore (chair)
- AGT: Vicki Kokolakis / Andrew Cecil / Jacob Hayes
- AVS: Jane Banovac
- BARENBRUG: Steve Amery
- EPG: Colin Smith
- INTERGRAIN: Jodie Bell / Kyle McLean
- LONGREACH PLANT BREEDERS: TBC
- NSW DPIRD: Guy McMullen
- NUSEED: Chris Roberts / Tara King
- RICE BREEDING AUSTRALIA: Chris Proud
- SEEDNET: Simon Crane / Chris Dunmill
- RAGT: Kirk Brehaut
- TRIGALL AUSTRALIA: Nick Willey
- GIA - Frank Delahunty
- AUSTRALIAN MUNGBEAN ASSOCIATION - David Pietsch
- PB SEEDS - Janine Sounness
- REBEL SEEDS - Damian Scanlan
- SEED EXCELLENCE - Mark Dieters
- AGRONOMY FOR PROFIT - Peter Norris
- GRAINSEARCH - Pauline Postlethwaite
- AGRIVENTIS TECHNOLOGIES - Andrew McDonald
Industry Guide for Wheat Variety Phenology Description
The purpose of this document is to provide farmers, agronomists, extension officers, plant breeders, and others with a consistent approach to wheat variety phenology (relative heading date) description.
EPRs
For information on EPR rates being charged on Australian varieties, please visit the Variety Central website.
Members
ACB's membership is actively involved in breeding bread wheat, barley, canola, sorghum, oats, durum, lentils and lupins.
Full Members
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Associate Members
EPR Members
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Agronomy for Profit
